PARISH PROFILE FOR ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH TABLE OF CONTENTS

Who We Are ...... 3 Our Mission and Ministry...... 6 Gifts and Ministry of St . Paul’s...... 7 Our New Rector ...... 13 Our History...... 15 Where We Are Located: Carroll Gardens and . . . . 18 Building Infrastructure ...... 20 Parish Finances ...... 25 Rector Compensation ...... 26 WHO WE ARE

Many of us experience the contemplative space and authentic community at St . Paul’s as a refuge in an often hectic urban landscape . Believing that beauty attunes us to God, we value and invite others into an aesthetic experience of worship—through hymns, ritual, poetry, and the space of the church itself, which offers a palpable sense of the sacred as well as continuity with those who have worshiped here before us .

Founded in 1849, St . Paul’s is a diverse, progressive- future . Our volunteer choir, led by our director of music minded parish of about 170 members who form a and our organist, is at the heart of our worship on close-knit community of worshippers . Our shared faith Sunday mornings . in God grounds and supports us in our daily lives . We draw on our Anglo-Catholic tradition to worship As listeners eager to understand and interpret God’s together in our uniquely beautiful historic church, joining word, we value sermons that apply scripture to our each Sunday to participate in a sung Rite I liturgy at daily lives with intelligence and spiritual insight . In our an east-facing altar, with candles, incense, and a relationships with our priest, we look for authenticity, choral anthem . While we are proud of our history and empathy, warmth, and spiritual guidance . tradition, we are also forward-looking, striving to live Joy in fellowship and a strong sense of community our faith in the world and to answer Christ’s call to love pervade life at St . Paul’s . Whether at coffee hour, at our neighbors with a spirit of openness and inclusion . a work day cleaning up the church together, or simply Music is integral to our worship and ministry . checking in with a fellow parishioner during the week, Many current members were originally drawn to St . we seek to connect with one another on a deeper Paul’s by its traditional worship style and music and level . When somebody asks you how you’re doing, feel strongly about carrying both forward into the they really want to know the answer and to offer whatever help they can .

| 3 | During the fall of 2018, we conducted an anonymous parishioners are married or in long-term partnerships . survey to gather information about our parish’s makeup, About 60 percent of those who responded have values, and character . Seventy-eight current and advanced college degrees . While a variety of former members responded . In terms of demographics, professions were listed in the survey, those active in the survey showed that about 10 percent of the the arts made up 17 percent of respondents . Many congregation consists of “oldtimers,” who have been congregants live outside the immediate neighborhood members since the 1980s when St . Paul’s worked and come to St . Paul’s from all over Brooklyn and New its way back from being an assisted parish . The rest York City, both because they view St . Paul’s as their of our membership includes an ever-changing mix of spiritual home and because of the fellowship they have singles, couples, and families with children of varying experienced and friendships they have formed here . ages, toddlers through college age . The majority of

| 4 | | 5 | OUR MISSION AND MINISTRY

Our mission in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood is to invite people from all backgrounds and walks of life to join in our joyful, festive celebration of the Eucharist and in our fellowship activities throughout the year . We believe that the beauty of our church and of our traditional worship—and the warm and welcoming character of our congregation—are unique gifts that can be strengthened and built upon to help us share God’s love with others .

Congregants at St . Paul’s value the role their parish We have already undertaken some activities along community plays in their lives, describing their fellow these lines, including keeping the church open regularly parishioners as “kind,” “embracing,” and “open .” We during the week; opening the parish hall to outside aspire to make that community more outward facing groups such as AA, Al-Anon, the Girl Scouts, and by engaging with our surrounding neighborhoods, a local music program for young children; opening including Cobble Hill, Gowanus, and Red Hook . the church to concerts and other cultural events, and advertising more effectively for St . Paul’s fellowship events such as our flea markets, auctions, and parish dinners . We see these activities as conduits to help people get to know us and pique their interest in our experience of worship .

| 6 | GIFTS AND MINISTRY OF ST. PAUL’S

Worship at St . Paul’s draws on our Anglo-Catholic heritage, bringing together ceremony and liturgy with a devotional, contemplative spirit .

Sunday and Weekly Worship Services Staff We celebrate Mass each Sunday, sharing the Eucharist Apart from the rector, paid staff at St . Paul’s comprises together, praying, and reflecting on scripture . During the organist, the music director, two part-time sextons, the program year (October to May), we worship using section leaders in the choir, and childcare providers on Rite I in a festive setting with a sung liturgy, incense, Sunday . All other activities and tasks are undertaken by and choral music . During the summer months we volunteers who are either organized in guilds or who change over to a Rite I said Mass with hymns . step up as the need arises .

Morning prayer is said in the Lady Chapel on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 am . On Friday mornings at 9 am, a Low Mass is held in the Lady Chapel .

Nathan Taylor, organist and Alex Canovas, music director

| 7 | Music St . Paul’s has a volunteer choir of about 14 members The annual summer Jazz Mass series, produced by a plus paid section leaders, who rehearse before Mass professional musician in our parish, offers a special during the program year and present the Psalm and opportunity to worship through music . We also host an Offertory Anthem during Mass as well as incidental many concerts by non-affiliated music groups and music . The choice of music emphasizes classical and provide rehearsal space to Sacred Harp shape singers . renaissance sacred literature but also includes modern and gospel selections . Over the long term, the growth Lectors Guild and rejuvenation of our choir membership will be There is a lector’s rota of about 15 members . Readings required for a sound music program, which, in turn, are assigned electronically . will help contribute to the overall growth of the parish . There is a split organist/music director position at present, with organist Nathan Taylor and music director Alex Canovas .

| 8 | Acolytes Guild The Acolytes Guild includes nine children and adults .

Altar Guild We have a well-equipped sacristy and four sacristans .

Sunday School We offer volunteer-led Sunday School classes each week from October through May for children between the ages of 5 and 12 . Classes meet in the Rectory Sunday at 9:45 am before Mass . The hour- long classes offer a balance of worship, exploratory learning, and art projects related to weekly Bible lessons . During the year, the children conduct charity drives, including a food drive to support a local food pantry and a sock drive to benefit the homeless . At the end of the year, children put what they have learned into practice by fundraising for a charity of their choice . Children are also invited to take part in a children’s service during the Christmas season .

Looking toward the future, we would like to offer music opportunities for children, most likely in the form of a children’s choir . We would also like to extend the Sunday School experience by offering a youth program, not necessarily on Sunday mornings, to continue to engage our teens who grew up at St . Paul’s .

| 9 | Adult Christian Education Hospitality Guild We regularly offer a range of Adult Christian Education Fellowship is one of our greatest gifts, a solid foundation opportunities led by the rector and lay parishioners that we hope to expand on, perhaps by drawing on immediately following Mass on select Sundays . The the talents of the many professional artists in our midst to classes generally focus on basic education about creatively engage with the surrounding community . Christianity and the Episcopal Church, with the aim of welcoming newcomers to St . Paul’s and increasing their Currently, St . Paul’s hosts a popular weekly post-Mass comfort with our beliefs and traditions . Current and coffee hour, sponsored by parishioners who bring past topics include: snacks, set up, and clean up . We also hold special receptions following events such as baptisms and • Introductory Bible Basics class funerals for parishioners and non-parishioners alike .

• Prayer Days: Workshops teaching different styles Social events, such as group dinners, are offered of prayer—including Ignatian prayer, centering seasonally . Everyone from the community is welcome at prayer, and praying the rosary—to help one these inexpensive, warm, and friendly gatherings . All explore one’s relationship with God proceeds are given to charity .

• A class exploring Anglican identity and spirituality

• A series of forums on racial justice and reconciliation in the church, including small group discussions, an interfaith panel, and community dialogue

| 10 | Fundraising Ad hoc fundraising campaigns have enabled the The annual auction, held in December, is our primary parish to make capital improvements, involving fundraising event . Run entirely by volunteers, it gives parishioners in physical work to renovate various everyone an opportunity to contribute while providing aspects of the buildings, as well as inviting them an entertaining evening of fellowship . Visitors are to contribute financially . These events have not encouraged to participate . A volunteer kitchen crew only resulted in improved facilities but also fostered also provides a meal for auction attendees . relationships among parishioners and a real sense of pride and accomplishment . Flea markets and craft sales, also managed by volunteers, are held once or twice a year, serving to raise funds while welcoming the surrounding community into St . Paul’s .

| 11 | Open Church Outreach St Paul’s is open to all for prayer and meditation, or Our parish hall is used every week by 7 AA and just to walk around, Tuesday and Thursday evenings Al-Anon groups, the Girl Scouts, an afterschool art and Saturday afternoons . Parishioners staff the church program, and an early childhood music program . during these times . Red Cross blood drives have been held here, and the space is available to local community organizations . The parish also holds a number of drives during the year for dry and canned food, socks, and books, and donates these items to charity programs .

In recent years, we have hosted several seminarians from General Seminary, participating in the training of priests for the Episcopal Church . These men and women have also contributed greatly to our community .

We also partner with various community and church organizations, primarily the Episcopal Ministries of Long Island (EMLI) .

Caring for Our Own St . Paul’s parishioners are active in each other’s lives . Our parish shares a special closeness, and we rally around those in need by visiting, bringing food, and being of service to each other .

In addition: • The rector provides pastoral care and home visits .

• Parishioners organize ride sharing to ease transportation needs .

• The Intercessions Guild prays daily for those in need .

• Parishioners have met regularly in home groups for St. Francis Guild Bible study in the past, and we hope to resume and expand these meetings . This guild is dedicated to environmental stewardship and has introduced recycling, ceramic coffee mugs instead of disposable cups, and water conservation .

Intercessions Guild The Intercessions Guild is made up of parishioners, present and past, who pray daily for family, friends, and loved ones in need, as well as acknowledging and celebrating the feast days of the church calendar . The intercessions are delivered daily via email to guild members .

| 12 | OUR NEW RECTOR

Through reflection and prayer as a congregation and as individuals, St . Paul’s has determined that we are seeking the following essential qualities in a new rector . We hope to find someone who can both lead us ably in our worship and help us continue to discern how God is calling us to grow . We are not seeking someone with a particular gender or sexual orientation, or with specific experience in an urban parish .

This person: Additionally, the ideal candidate is: • values tradition and is a Rite I minister, but is also • Open-minded and welcoming to people with open to new ideas . diverse backgrounds .

• is able to celebrate and sing a Rite I Mass, but • Musically proficient, with a strong interest in is not associated with a rigid socially and/or maximizing the musical experience for all at politically conservative outlook . St . Paul’s .

• is an inspiring preacher whose sermons are • Faithful, spiritual, devout, and able to serve as a intellectually challenging, scripture-based, spiritual guide by word and example . conducive to spiritual growth, and relates to the daily lives of parishioners . • Full of personal warmth and eager to serve as an empathetic counselor . Skilled at pastoral care . • is able to build bridges with people of differing political and social convictions . • Communicative, articulate, and knowledgeable . • Discreet about the problems and situations of parishioners .

• A gifted teacher, advancing the spiritual development of all age groups through appropriate means, including Sunday School, children’s choir, youth programs, and adult Christian education .

| 13 | In view of St . Paul’s need and desire for growth, it On the practical, administrative side, this person has is essential that the new rector be able to guide and financial and business sense and is a balanced, sound support us as we continue to prayerfully discern our administrator . In cooperation with the vestry, s/he is able future, generating enthusiasm and motivating us—with to set clear developmental and financial goals, and compassion—to pursue it . With that purpose in mind, effectively communicate these goals to the congregation this person is able to relate to and work well with with a view toward bringing the parish on board and young people and have a vision for strengthening and sparking our enthusiasm . enhancing the music program . The new rector is also equipped to help us continue our current community outreach efforts and bolster those efforts through other forms of outward-facing fellowship and engagement with our local community, helping St . Paul’s to raise its profile, expand its ministry, and bring new people in .

| 14 | OUR HISTORY

The life of St . Paul’s congregation spans more than 150 years . In that time, its history has been shaped by both the changing landscape of the Carroll Gardens neighborhood—including waves of immigration from Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America—and the passion and mission of those who have served God here .

The parishioners of St . Paul’s held their first service in a room over a Union Street stable on Christmas Day, 1849 . In the spring of 1866 the vestry purchased land at the corner of Clinton and Carroll Streets and commissioned prominent architect Richard M . Upjohn to design the granite and limestone building that stands today .

| 15 | By the turn of the century, grappling with financial Social barriers also continued to fall at St . Paul’s . A woes, internal strife, demographic changes, and a fire West Indian community arrived at the church between in 1907, the vestry prepared to close the church, sell 1928 and 1934 seeking full participation and equal the building, and relocate the parish . access to the sacraments . Their descendants became leaders of St . Paul’s, which later welcomed two But vestry member William Hall Ford argued that the generations of arrivals from the West Indian community parish ought to remain in its present location and adopt who would sustain the parish into the 1980s . both Anglo-Catholic social activism and an Anglo- Catholic form of worship . A new rector, Reverend In the postwar 1950s and 60s, St . Paul’s began offering Andrew Chalmers Wilson, enthusiastically launched a Spanish Mass to better serve a new population of outreach services and established St . Paul’s as a Spanish-speaking immigrant families, but by the 1970s, leading example of the Anglo-Catholic Revival of the again found itself in decline . In 1982, Fr . Samuel Otis Oxford Movement . Cross was appointed vicar (and later rector in 1985) as St . Paul’s took on the status of an aided parish of the During the Great Depression, St . Paul’s managed diocese . With enormous personal effort, Fr . Cross began a store that provided groceries and clothing below the process of growing the congregation and repairing wholesale cost or for free; St . Paul’s Dispensary the buildings . St . Paul’s became a self-financing parish provided medical care; St . Paul’s employment agency again in time for the centennial of the consecration of the helped the jobless find work; and St . Paul’s free church building in 1984 . kindergarten was the largest in Brooklyn . From the Archives

| 16 | The 13th and most recent rector of St . Paul’s, Fr . Peter Cullen, was installed shortly after a catastrophic fire on January 4, 1987 . The hallmark of Fr . Cullen’s rectorship was the quiet and unassuming advancement of the restoration and rebuilding process with the aid of a unified congregation . On his retirement in 2017, Fr . Cullen, having served longer than any previous rector, had presided over 30 years of congregational growth, organizational stability, and continuous infrastructure improvement . The Rev . Dr . Sean M . 1987, Volunteers—some of whom still attend St. Paul’s–pitch in after the fire. Wallace was called as interim upon Fr . Cullen’s retirement .

| 17 | WHERE WE ARE LOCATED: CARROLL GARDENS AND BROOKLYN

St . Paul’s is located in the heart of Carroll Gardens, named after both Charles Carroll, whose Maryland regiment helped to defend the area during the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Long Island, and after the front gardens adorning many of its elegant brownstones .

Geographically, it extends from Degraw and Warren Carroll Gardens once had a strongly Italian-American Streets to the north, Hoyt and Smith Streets to the east, character, as immigrants flocked here from the Ninth Street and Hamilton Avenue to the south, and the late 1800s onwards . Though the Italian-American Brooklyn Queens Expressway to the west . St . Paul’s is population has declined, largely due to gentrification the only Episcopal church within these bounds, though that began in the 1960s, the neighborhood shows its mission area also includes Red Hook, south of the its heritage in traditional Italian cafes and shops on Brooklyn Queens Expressway, a former prosperous Court, Smith, and Henry Streets . In the mid-century, shipping and port area . St . Paul’s is the closest young professionals started fleeing high Manhattan Episcopal Church to Red Hook and incorporated the rents and buying up and restoring the beautiful brick worshippers of the Red Hook Church of the Holy Child and brownstone buildings in Carroll Gardens, in those of Jesus when it closed in the 1970s . days a hardscrabble working-class neighborhood . A quick subway ride away from work and entertainment in Manhattan, the area experienced a rapid upswing beginning the 90s and is now a high-rent middle-class community . Those who live here today praise the more open sky, the relaxed pace, and the homier feel of Carroll Gardens as compared to Manhattan .

Carroll Gardens is now sometimes dubbed “Little Paris,” since the French language curriculum at PS 58 (the elementary school next to Carroll Park) and the Brooklyn International School on Court and Nelson Streets have attracted a large group of French-speaking expatriates to the neighborhood . This group has

| 18 | brought with them not just outstanding croissants but numerous recreational facilities, including playgrounds, also full-menu French restaurants . basketball courts, sports fields, and a roller skating rink .

St . Paul’s Church and rectory are within easy reach of There are a number of high-quality elementary school a wide variety of new boutiques, hip bars, and trendy options available in the area, which is Brooklyn’s District restaurants, ranging from down-to-earth local diners 15, including public, private, and charter schools, to upscale eateries attracting a demanding citywide and a school focusing on academic achievement for clientele . The pretty, verdant thoroughfares are lined children with special needs . Many of these schools offer with garden-fronted brownstones and other historic dual language programs in French or Spanish . buildings, many of which are home to young families and professionals . Middle school and high school admissions in this area of Brooklyn are done via a school choice process . St . Paul’s is steps away from the F and G trains Students may apply to multiple schools or programs, at the Carroll Street station . The F provides an and seats are then offered through a random selection easy connection to the Lower East Side, Midtown, process administered by the Department of Education . Broadway, and Lincoln Center . Some citywide schools screen students by grades, tests, or talent auditions . More information about this is Heading deeper into Brooklyn, the F train ends at available on the DOE website . Private middle schools and the Brooklyn Aquarium, with a sandy and high schools also have their own evaluation and beach for a summer dip a few steps away . The G train placement processes . connects Carroll Gardens to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene and to the art and Carroll Gardens is a very safe neighborhood, restaurant scene in Williamsburg and Greenpoint . serviced by the 76th police precinct . Many medical BAM has first-rate theater, cinema, music, and dance professionals and walk-in clinics can be found in the programs on par with Manhattan . immediate neighborhood, and there are emergency rooms on Amity Street, at New York Presbyterian During the summer, music and drama programs in Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in nearby Park Slope, and Prospect Park and Carroll Park—including the free at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn in Sunset Park . programming at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn—rival those in Central Park . A short bus ride away, Brooklyn For more complete demographic information on the Bridge Park stretches along Brooklyn’s waterfront, Carroll Gardens neighborhood, see the National providing green space, public art, beautiful views of Episcopal Church website . the Manhattan skyline, an urban walking trail, and

| 19 | BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE

Church St . Paul’s was built in 1867, designed by Richard Upjohn in the High Victorian Gothic style . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 .

The exterior walls are constructed of rough-textured bluestone trimmed with lighter-colored sandstones, giving the façade a polychromatic effect . The slate roof, badly damaged in a fire in 1987, has been fully restored .

Upon entering the church, one looks east up the center aisle of the nave, which has a 65-foot open hammer- beam ceiling and blue gold-rimmed ceiling panels, toward the chancel and the altar . Two side aisles are separated from the nave by massive stone columns with elaborate capitals . The capitals and the stone corbels of the aisle ceiling are decorated with naturalistic foliage, emblems of the evangelists, and heads of the apostles . The aisle arches are decorated with stenciled stylized leaves and vases with tendrils of passion flowers, showing the influence of art critic John Ruskin . The chancel itself is separated from the nave by steps leading up to the communion rail, beyond which lie the sanctuary and east-facing altar .

| 20 | | 21 | The St . Joseph chapel to the left of the altar and the contains a tall stone baptismal font . Currently, it serves Lady Chapel to the right are the work of the early as a columbarium for many St . Paul’s parishioners who twentieth-century Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams have passed on . Cram . There are four shrines along the outer walls of St . Paul’s: the St . Joseph Shrine, the St . Francis Shrine, The black walnut pews can accommodate around 300 a shrine devoted to the Virgin Mary, and one of the people . Sacred Heart of Jesus . All contain remarkable statuary . The Sacristy is north of the St . Joseph chapel .

The ornate wooden pulpit and sounding board with Parish Hall their complex Gothic detail and series of carved figures of saints were also designed by Ralph Cram . The The parish hall, built at the same time as the church, is pulpit rises on a column near the middle of the church, located to the east of the sacristy . It is a bright, open positioned so that a preacher would be surrounded by room with a simple beamed ceiling and parquet floor the congregation . that can accommodate about 200 people (standing) or 100 people seated at tables . It has a separate kitchen The Chapel of the Resurrection at the southwest corner space with a refrigerator, large commercial stove, and of the building historically functioned as the entrance high-efficiency dishwasher . to the church . It was later used as a baptistry and

| 22 | | 23 | Rectory St . Andrew’s House, the four-story rectory, was built there is a small efficiency kitchen; next to it is a in 1914 and is separated from the church by a small handicapped-accessible bathroom . garden and a brick walk . The second floor encompasses a chapel, accessible to The recently-renovated ground floor of the rectory the right from the stairs, and the library, with a beamed contains the parish office and two large rooms in ceiling and built-in bookcases . The library serves as which Sunday School is held . In one of the rooms, rehearsal space for the choir and as a meeting space . Off of the library is the rector’s office with an attached powder room .

Apartments make up the third and fourth floors . The third floor apartment is currently being renovated and converted into a three-bedroom, two-bath apartment . Depending on need, it is intended to serve as the rector’s apartment . The fourth floor is typically made available to other clergy as a source of revenue .

Organ The organ was built by the Austin Organ Company (Hartford, Conn . – Opus 479-A (1914), rev .) . It has electro-pneumatic action with 3 manuals, 60 stops, and 46 ranks .

| 24 | PARISH FINANCES

St . Paul’s is a self-supporting parish with a balanced budget, a year’s worth of expenses on reserve, and a modest, growing endowment . The parish has successfully addressed capital improvement needs in recent years with separate fundraising drives to cover the unexpected costs .

While the month of October used to be “stewardship month,” St . Paul’s has recently launched the “talent, time, and treasure” initiative designed to keep stewardship at the forefront of people’s minds year-round .

Revenue Sources 2018

Capital $350,000 Improvement Gifts $300,000 $250,000 Rectory Revenue $200,000 $150,000 Space Use Pledges $100,000

$50,000 Fundraising $0 2018 2019 projected Plate Offerings Receipts Disbursements

| 25 | RECTOR COMPENSATION

The salary of the incumbent is negotiable within Next Steps Diocesan guidelines . SECA is reimbursed at 10% If you sense that God may be calling you to St . Paul’s, of salary . The pension plan is in compliance with please send a cover letter, your resume, a current Church Pension Fund requirements . A health care Office of Transition Ministry (OTM) Portfolio, and links option is provided and is negotiable; a dental option to three sermons to search@stpaulscarrollst .org by is included . Housing is at the rectory . A 3 bedroom, 2 Wednesday, May 15, 2019 . For further information, bath apartment will be made available, including heat, including how to create an OTM Portfolio if you do hot water, gas, electric, and telephone . A housing not have one, please email Reverend Canon Claire equity allowance will also be paid . The vacation time Woodley at cwoodley@dioceseli .org . is 5 weeks . Continuing education is not provided for in the 2019 budget, but will be negotiable in the future . A three-month sabbatical can be taken after 7 years . A small auto/travel budget is provided .

Bath 10.3

Bedroom Bedroom 9.9 x 10.0 17.3

WD Ref Wooden Cabinet Closet Shower

13.3

Kitchen ry Bath

Pantry

Livingroom Bedroom 19 x 17.6 19 x 14

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